On Sun, 2007-09-02 22:37:43 +0200, David Kastrup wrote: > Jan-Benedict Glaw writes: > > > I'm just thinking about storing our whole company's configuration into > > GIT, because I'm all too used to it. That is, there are configuration > > dumps of n*10000 routers and switches, as well as "regular" > > configuration files on server machines (mostly Linux and Solaris.) > > While probably all of the server machines could run GIT natively, we > > already have some scripts to dump all router's/switch's configuration > > to a Solaris system, so we could it import/commit from there. There > > might be a small number of Windows machines, but I guess these will be > > done by exporting the interesting stuff to Linux/Solaris machines... > > > > I initially thought about running a git-init-db on each machine's root > > directory and adding all interesting files, but that might hurt GIT's > > usage for single software projects on those machines, no? > > It could break shell scripts, since > cd /;echo `pwd`/filename > does not return /filename. Well, I don't think that this is much of a problem. > I don't think that the root directory is a good place for starting > git. Maybe :) But this is why I brought up the discussion, to get other people's oppinion on this topic. MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw@lug-owl.de +49-172-7608481 Signature of: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html the second :